Chapter 50 Air Raid Alerts
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It is a stadium with an illustrious history, with 16 championship trophies and 16 championship flags flying over the arena, and it was once one of the league's two most feared home stadiums in the 70s and 80s of the last century.
And in the first years of the 21st century, the presence of a large shark here made the whole Union tremble. Later, although the shark is gone, there is still a bloodthirsty black mamba that rules the area.
This is Staples! It's the home of the Lakers! It's the pride of Los Angeles!
However, there is more than one team here, as the saying goes, "the worst must be the opposite", and the other team here has always been at the bottom of the league. If the Lakers are brilliant, then the team that is brothers in the same city as the Lakers and shares the arena is miserable, the team has no results in history, and the draft vision is also bad, this team is the Los Angeles Clippers.
For a long time, people have been referring to the Lakers as one of the labels of Los Angeles, and the Clippers in the same city are difficult to remember.
Although it is said that in 06, under the leadership of Brand and Carman, the Clippers played a good game for a season, but then immediately became a small broken boat, and everyone was bullied. Although he was lucky enough to pick the violent boy Griffin in '09, Griffin was directly injured, and his rookie season was directly reimbursed, and he recovered from the injury in the end.
However, a salted fish also has dreams, and the Clippers' dream is to one day wrestle with the Lakers and replace them as the owner of Los Angeles.
To achieve this lofty goal, it is hopeless to rely on a small broken ship, and if you want to defeat the Lakers, you must first turn the small broken ship into an aircraft carrier.
The Clippers waited for the man who could turn the team into an aircraft carrier, and finally, the hard work paid off, and in the summer of '11, they waited!
Chris Paul, the league's strongest point guard at the moment, was parachuted from New Orleans to Los Angeles. And with his arrival, the Clippers seem to have really changed, and Paul freed Griffin and Jordan Jr. into people who play in the sky.
And the Clippers also swept away the past decline last season and entered the playoffs in one fell swoop, which is really a great improvement.
This season, the configuration of the Clippers team is more reasonable, and the cooperation between the players is more tacit, Paul is gearing up to lead the Clippers to the Western Conference finals this season, touch the floor of the Western Conference finals, and then enter the Finals.
And they drank the same as the Spurs, starting with four consecutive wins, no wonder Jordan Jr. dared to declare war with the Spurs so hard.
And today, the Spurs will have a head-to-head battle with the Clippers.
The reports on Qin Yan before the game never stopped, and I felt that there were many people who made a lot of nonsense about Qin Yan.
Many people's opinions are, Qin Yan, since you said that Jordan Jr. is not qualified to shout at the Spurs, then on the other hand, you are just a rookie who has played three games, and you are not qualified to shout at the Clippers on behalf of the Spurs.
Although the Clippers do not have a glorious history like the Spurs, they now have the first point guard Chris Paul, the Finals MVP such as Puss, and the violent power forward Griffin, etc., each of these people is much more qualified and famous than the current Qin Yan.
Therefore, a bunch of "black flames" on the website began to criticize Qin Yan for getting carried away, no big or small. In their opinion, if one person in the GDP said these things, it would be about the same, and Qin Yan, a fledgling rookie, would simply say these things.
But fortunately, the official website of the Spurs and all the players expressed their support for Qin Yan, the Spurs are a king who has proven themselves, and the Clippers are indeed a challenger in front of the Spurs.
Without further ado, let's just put our eyes on the arena.
Since Paul's arrival, the Clippers' style of play has skyrocketed, and tickets to their home stadium are finally in short supply.
At least last season's derby against the Lakers, the Clippers didn't feel like they were on the road, and Clippers fans were getting to compete with Lakers fans.
In order to support the home team today, almost all Clippers fans went out, and the attendance rate at the Staples Center was definitely above 90%.
As soon as the Spurs entered, the whole stadium was booed, and the red flag of the Clippers turned into a sea of red, as if trying to drown out this group of black and white Spurs players.
Spurs on the bench, Spurs members are warming up in place, preparing for a game for a while.
"Tsk, I didn't expect it, Chris's arrival has changed this team so much, and now they are even more difficult to deal with than they were last season." Parker dribbled with emotion.
"Well, it's so easy to play with Chris, you just have to run and jump. You look at Chandler at the beginning, and then look at Blake and DeAndrew in the current team, they are all able to run and jump. Chris only needs to throw the ball into the sky, and the two of them can fight their way through the sky. "Duncan is a little serious, he didn't do much else, this is after he needs to maintain his strength, after all, the Clippers are quite strong inside, especially the starters are still flexible and mobile, and it is not easy to clean up.
"Not only that, but they also have experienced veterans like Chauncey, Grant and Jamal's convulsive nerve knife, and they have almost no weaknesses in their squad this season." Ginobili concluded.
The other players of the Spurs immediately became serious when they heard this, after all, the team bigwigs have spoken, and if they are not serious, they will wait to be scolded.
"Alright, come here, let's talk about tactic......s one last time," Popovich began to summon such disciples and make the final pre-match arrangements.
"The most important thing today is to block the two inside beasts on the opposite side, we can't let them play easily, as long as the inside line can be defended, we can win!" Popovich finally explained the tactics, and then encouraged his disciples, as if blessing them with an offensive aura and a defensive aura.
"Go ahead!"
"Spurs - Victory!"
The Spurs are now habitually yelling before the opening under Qin Yan's suggestion, and I have to say that the momentum of the whole person is much sharper after the roar.
On the other side, next to a handsome little black man, two big men were guarding him on the left and right.
"I hear you, Spurs are encouraging themselves, but today we can easily throw in the towel! Blake, DeAndrew, rest and watch the opportunity, jump at every opportunity, I will pass the air relay to you on time, we will beat them in the air! "This little man is none other than the "captain" Chris Paul of the current "aircraft carrier" in Los Angeles.
And the two next to him are naturally Jordan Jr. and Griffin, if Paul is the "captain", they are the two most powerful fighters on the aircraft carrier, or two heavyweight bombers.
"Understand Chris, you just throw it, there is no one on the Spurs side who can stop us in the sky!" Little Jordan is so confident.
"Let's go, let's play." Seeing that his teammates understood what he meant, Paul patted them on the back and took the lead on the field.
There is a live broadcast of this game on Tencent Video in China, and the people in charge of commenting are Ke Fan and Zhang Weiping, and Zhang Lili is a teacher.
"Hello audience friends, you are now watching the 2012-2013 NBA regular season, San Antonio Spurs vs. Los Angeles Clippers, this game will be explained by my Ke Fan and Zhang Weiping teachers." In the live broadcast hall, Ke Fan was warming up.
"I think many fans are looking forward to this game, the first is because this is the first time that the Spurs' Chinese player Qin Yan has appeared in front of a national audience, and the second is that this game is a collision between two teams with four consecutive wins, both of which have strong strength, and I believe this game will be very exciting. Mr. Zhang, what do you think? ”
"Indeed, Qin Yan, a Chinese rookie, really makes everyone look forward to it, although he is not played in China, but it is true that my country has the best player in the draft except for Yao Ming, and he is also an outsider, today is his first appearance in front of the national audience, I hope he can play a wonderful and reasonable role, don't live up to everyone's expectations of him." Teacher Zhang really lives up to the name of "reasonable", and every time he speaks, he can't do without the word "reasonable".
"So Mr. Zhang, what do you think of Qin Yan, a player?" Ke Fan was a little bored before the game started, and began to talk about water.
Judging from the three games he has played so far, Qin Yan is a player with both a smart brain and a strong body, and his way of playing is very reasonable, and he will not be brutal. Hopefully he can keep it up. "Teacher Zhang has nothing to say, after all, Qin Yan's current information is almost blank in China, and only Su Xiaoya's website has more detailed information.
"Okay, I'm looking forward to this game like Mr. Zhang, now let's turn our attention to the game." Ke Fan saw that he was going to be cold when he went on like this, so he hurriedly beckoned to switch cameras.
At this time, the starters of Staples, Spurs and Clippers have all entered the game, and the Spurs are still a fixed lineup, Split, Duncan, Leonard, Qin Yan and Parker.
On the Clippers' side, the starters are as follows:
Center: DeAndre Jordan
Power forward: Blake Griffin
Small forward: Grant Hill
Shooting guard: Caron Butler
Point guard: Chris Paul
Originally, the backcourt lineup that the Clippers were used to this season was the dual point guard lineup of Paul and Billups, but the height gap between Billups and Qin Yan was a bit big, so put Butler in the position of scoring guard and let Butler and Qin Yan face each other, at least the difference in height and weight would not be too much.
"You are Qin Yan?" Qin Yan was warming up when suddenly, a voice came from below his body.
Look down, it's Chris Paul!
Paul didn't give Qin Yan much time to react, leaving a sentence and turning around and leaving coolly.
"Although there is something wrong with what DeAndre said. But you're not qualified to dictate to the Clippers, so, you're going to learn a lesson today. ”
Qin Yan was suddenly a little stupid? Is this Paul? He can do such a childish thing? Smiled helplessly, Qin Yan knew that he was still talking with his strength at this time, and it was useless to play tricks, not to mention, in Qin Yan's memory, Paul had never touched the floor of Xiduan before he crossed over!
"Di-" A whistle sounded, and the jumping boy Jordan won easily, and Split's floor stream didn't pose much of a threat to Jordan even if he jumped desperately.
Paul grabbed the ball first, quickly dribbled to the three-point line, and then saw him throw it hard with one hand! The basketball flies high into the air in the penalty area!
"Spurs, let's use this ball to show you what an empty city is!" Paul thought to himself.
At this time, no one in the Spurs penalty area had time to return to defense, and the fast ones such as Qin Yan were directly blocked by Butler, and the Spurs penalty area was unguarded!
A sturdy and majestic figure quickly stepped into the penalty area, and then jumped with all his might, and immediately saw a huge shadow enveloping the Spurs' penalty area.
A pair of big hands accurately catch the basketball in the air, then draw a circle in the air and smash it hard at the basket!
"Boom-" The whole hoop is trembling slightly!
"Ula-" This dunk made Staples boil, and the audience erupted in cheers as he watched the figure hanging on the basket and make pull-ups to relieve inertia!
"Blake-Griffin!"
"Blake! Blake! Blake! ”
The Spurs players have serious expressions and look like they are in the empty city, and they live up to their reputation!
Over the Spurs' penalty area, air raid sirens sound!